🏈 Tide Pride and ticket questions

[BamaFan334]

Well ladies and gentlemen, I'm about to make a lump sum donation to skip the waiting list to join Tide Pride and get season tickets. To express how proud and excited I am is impossible. I can finally take my kids to the games and raise them around Alabama football in the Fall without the worry of locating tickets for a decent price. My questions to those of y'all that may know is about away game offerings, kickoff games, SEC Championship, and Bowl Games. How many points do you need to get to these levels of ticket offerings? I know each year it depends on who accepts them, how much is donated yadda yadda, but a ballpark or personal experience in the last few years would go a long ways of helping me understand. Thanks in advance for any information.

 

[OldPlayer]

I don't think anyone can give a a firm answer. It depends. If the athletic department has 1000 tickets for Tide Pride (just a number for example purposes), those tickets go to the highest point holders that request them. So rank the point holders from the most to the least and the top 1000 point holders that requested will get them. It's a combination of how many tickets are allocated, who/how many request tickets, and where you fall in the point rankings. You may get them one year but not the next.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

And.. according to the number of tickets and if you get only football.....
Then the wait is long....if at all....sorry....
And it takes a long time to upgrade ...say from east or south end zone (sunny...hot in sept / early oct ) to west (shady for most games) ....uppers to lowers...etc
I have been a TP member a longggggggg time...football only..and i do not get away game tickets..have a couple of times...KY and Ark.....have gotten neutral site tickets ....kickoff classic games........but no championship tickets....
And didnt get Sugar Bowl in 2013....so oldplayer is right...hard to get a firm answer..
But....
How many tickets you get
How much you donate for donation sake
Whether football only or other sports
How long you get them for
.....some times get offers to make donations and get extra points for doing so...
But ur seats are confirmed...you meet the other seat holders around you... and you r donating to an awesome cause....
copy of 2017 away game order form attached

 

[BamaFan334]

I donated and jumped about eight years worth. Signed up before I started school about six years ago, just checked a month ago and she gave me a ballpark of about eight years left based on the amount they have admitted lately. My tickets will be in HH, Row 51. I am beyond excited about this. Being able to roll into town without the worry of finding tickets will be such a sweeter experience.

 

[bamachine]

I have had season tickets since 2005 and I don't have enough points to get almost all of the away/bowl/SECCG etc, tickets. Only time is when the other team sends some back and I can get them on the second chance. I think I got tix to the TSIO @ Neyland, one time but none of the other times did I have enough points, had to buy them off the street in Knoxville(both times got them for face from Vols season ticket holders). I have been to all of the kickoff games in Atl, since the Clemson game in 2008(likely miss this year, too high for even the cheap seats) and two of the three in Dallas(did not make it for the Wisky game). Also went to the title game in Pasadena against Texas and the title game in NOLA vs LSU. Only one of those games did I get through Tide Pride, one of the VaTech games. The rest I got through Stubhub, scalpers and the Texas game through a local seller on eBay(met him and handed him cash, less than the current bid price he had). Never made it to the SECCG(always saved my money hoping to get tickets to NC game).

 

[50+yeartidefan]

I donated and jumped about eight years worth. Signed up before I started school about six years ago, just checked a month ago and she gave me a ballpark of about eight years left based on the amount they have admitted lately. My tickets will be in HH, Row 51. I am beyond excited about this. Being able to roll into town without the worry of finding tickets will be such a sweeter experience.

Congrats......sounds great.....for big games it is really nice...

 

[rammerjammer]

I have had season tickets since 2002. As you gain points, so does everybody else. The minimum number of points needed for certain events goes up every year.

Having said that, I get the option every year for the home opener. Could have gone to the FSU/Bama game this year, but chose to watch it at home. I pretty much get upper level tix to all of those, (another reason I chose to stay home). I am at the "edge" on points and if I buy early, I usually get an email to "upgrade" after the first round of offerings go out and can usually get lower level tickets at the second/third rotation.

Last year was the first time I had the opportunity to buy National Championship tickets. It was also the first opportunity for me to get SECCG tix. Although I was not offered SECCG tix until about a week or two before the game. I already had received an email stating that I would receive Nat Champ tix if we made through the play offs, so I didn't go to Atl. I chose to roll the dice because I felt like we would make it to Tampa.

I don't know how I got Tampa tix in the first go round, but didn't get Atl tix until the 2nd or 3rd. Either way, unless you're ready to cough up a lot more money in donations, you will probably have to ride it out a little longer.

 

[Bamabww]

I joined Tide Pride the first year it started, mid to late 80's I think, and was ordering off the alumni card they mailed out before that. I was ordering 4 Tide Pride tickets plus the required donation to be in the Bama section per year thru 2000. From 1984 thru 2000 we didn't miss a home game and made several aways games as well. During the summer of 2000 my financial advisor recommended I start putting any extra money I could into an investment account for my retirement. My son had just graduated from law school and I transferred the Tide Pride account to him the next spring with the understanding I get homecoming tickets each year. Even with all that seniority as a charter member in the Tide Pride, he still doesn't get an opportunity to order all the after regular season games except the SEC CG.

Said all of that to say this: money talks a lot louder than seniority when it comes to the Tide Pride ticket order blanks.

I raised my two kids going to Bama games and now you'll be doing the same. Enjoy the opportunities that will give you. I'm glad it worked out for you.